Please eliminate hard coded styling in your layout files
By Meagan Hooper on Wednesday, 22 February 2017
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Hello,

We have been working to customize the styling of the Docker toolbar. I've noticed that you have hard coded <b> tags into the layout files for the drop down notifications for activity and messages. This really isn't a preferred way of applying styling to this output as it would require us to utilize overrides for the layout files which would then need to constantly be checked against new updates. It would be a better process to assign classes to those sections of the output so that they could be styled appropriately with css.

Would you be able to change that in the next update?

Thank You.
Hi there,

You can do template override on this issues as those view is controlled by the components itself. You can do on this path /templates/*current_theme/html/com_easysocial/conversations/popbox/notifications.php. Thanks for your understanding
Abdul Warith Norudin
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 11:31
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Hello Abdul,

I am familiar with implementing overrides, however, by overriding the notifications.php file we will constantly have to compare our version of the file against any new update releases you provide to make sure that no other part of the code has changed. That is not the preferred method for achieving styling changes in a joomla environment. Style choices should not be 'baked' into the code.

Thank You.
Meagan Hooper
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 22:22
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Hi Meagan,

I will consult this with our developer and see how if we can implement this in the future. Thanks for reporting this
Abdul Warith Norudin
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Thursday, 23 February 2017 10:20
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